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ARCH KERNEL 7.1.3 LANDS WITH CRITICAL FIXES FOR AMD, INTEL, AND NAMESPACES

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Arch's patched 7.1.3 kernel ships four key security and stability fixes that address GPU deadlocks, display pipeline issues, and unprivileged namespace creation.

The Arch Linux kernel v7.1.3-arch1 [1] is now available and applies directly on stable with targeted patches that matter. The most critical: a new sysctl to disable unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER, closing a longstanding attack surface for privilege escalation. GPU drivers get relief too. The AMD display subsystem gets a fix for the ISM dc_lock deadlock that could freeze suspend operations [1], while Intel's Meteor Lake platform now properly enables PPS before PLL to prevent initialization failures [1]. A companion udmabuf security fix prevents malformed scatterlists from crashing the kernel [1]. Meanwhile, upstream is already working the next wave: Andrew Morton's mm hotfixes tag [2] includes 20 patches with 12 marked stable, addressing post-7.1 regressions and old DAMON issues that will eventually flow downstream. In the userspace stack, Nix 2.34.8 [3], ocicl 2.17.0 [4], and NetHack 5.0.0 [5] are staging in testing repositories. The signstar team also bumped the aes-gcm cryptography crate to 0.11.0 [6] to keep encryption dependencies current.

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References

  1. [1] Arch Linux kernel v7.1.3-arch1 ↗ archlinux/linux
  2. [2] Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-07-06-17-49' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm archlinux/linux ↗
  3. [3] update nix to 2.34.8-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  4. [4] update ocicl to 2.17.0-1 in extra-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  5. [5] update nethack to 5.0.0-1 in extra-testing-x86_64 archlinux/state ↗
  6. [6] fix(deps): Update Rust crate aes-gcm to 0.11.0 ↗ archlinux/signstar

$ ls archlinux/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review Kernel v7.2.4-arch1 ships with userns sysctl the month in review August's Arch: AUR hardening, kernel churn, and steady package flow
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Quick answers

What shipped in Arch Linux on July 7, 2026?
Arch's patched 7.1.3 kernel ships four key security and stability fixes that address GPU deadlocks, display pipeline issues, and unprivileged namespace creation. In total, 53 commits and 1 releases landed.
What were the notable Arch Linux updates?
Arch Linux kernel v7.1.3-arch1, Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-07-06-17-49' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm, and update nix to 2.34.8-1 in extra-x86_64.
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$ log @archlinux --recent

Felix Yan promotes the xmonad stack to extra, moor lands at 2.19.2 50 shipped Synapse 1.161.0 lands in infrastructure, anki promoted to extra 70 shipped Arch ships a CLONE_NEWUSER kill switch in v7.2.6-arch2 59 shipped mise and asusctl land in extra, tracexec hits 1.0 50 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Alignment & Post-training verl rejects conflicting vLLM engine_kwargs, open-instruct adds MILES OPD behind a Megatron learner Interpretability nnsight 0.8.0 cuts import time from 7.6s to 1.6s

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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